"The enthusiasm from the crowd is so high," Lyle said in surprise as he watched the Andrey Liches grow restless amidst the drumming.
"That's because the contender from the Advanced Magic Research Society is about to enter," the Gentleman's skull replied beside Lyle.
The place where Lyle was sitting now resembled the sacrificial site of some dark ceremony. He was seated in the middle, surrounded by the skulls of those eight punished individuals, who were hung from flagpoles.
The flaw in their punishment was discovered by Shiny, who demanded that their bodies must be hung on the flagpoles, but didn't say they couldn't disassemble other parts of themselves... And since Lyle himself wasn't too angry anymore, so... On the seats of the Gentlemen and their associates, skulls hung by bone brackets were clicking and clacking around him. Alianna, being a contender, had already left, and everything seemed to be back to how it started.
